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...headed for the Big Apple—just one week after city officials said the line lacked necessary permits. Vamoose, a New York-based bus company which offers wireless internet and guaranteed seating, started operating the new daily line on Thursday, after receiving permission for passenger pick-up and drop-off from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department. After Vamoose began publicizing its new route, officials from Boston and Cambridge said it didn’t have the appropriate authorizations to park. A week ago, the director of Cambridge’s traffic department, Susan Clippinger, told The Crimson...
Motor vehicles had the biggest drop-off in dollars. Sales of automobiles and car parts were down...
Like its poverty, Guinea-Bissau's landscape proved ideal for drug cartels. Its 350-km coastline, with 50 or so uninhabited islands, offers excellent drop-off points for drug vessels, and planes can deliver drugs to any number of Portuguese-built airstrips that have been abandoned for years as the country has no planes. "This is an open space where you can do anything," says a military officer from another African country who is stationed in Guinea-Bissau as part of a cooperation agreement. "There is no plane. No radar. Nothing...
...According to figures compiled by the Brookings Institution at the end of May, the number of sectarian murders, carried out mainly by Shi'ite death squads against Sunnis, has risen noticeably in recent weeks after a drop-off that began in the latter part of February. Sectarian deaths are often described as "extra-judicial killings" (EJKs) and involve the abduction, torture and murder of the victim, with the body usually left on the street. In May, says the Brookings report, citing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, there were roughly 700 EJKs across Baghdad. While still lower than...
...Sadr's comeback will also likely re-energize the Mahdi Army, which has kept a low profile in Baghdad since the start of the "surge" in U.S. troops. Sadr had initially ordered his militia not to engage the Americans; this lead to an immediate drop-off in the activities of Shi'ite death squads, lending credence to U.S. suspicions that many of these squads are from the Mahdi Army. But there have been indications recently that the death squads are being reactivated: the bodies of Sunnis have begun to turn up in Baghdad, bearing signs of gruesome torture and execution...